Ten Simple Rules for Selecting a Bio-ontology

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Malone, James ^a   Stevens, Robert ^b   Jupp, Simon ^a   Hancocks, Tom ^a   Parkinson, Helen ^a   Brooksbank, Cath ^a  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIO-ONTOLOGIES; SIMPLE++;

ONTOLOGY;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BIOLOGICAL ONTOLOGY; CLASSESS SHOULD CONTAIN TEXTUAL DEFINITION; COMMUNITY; CONSENSUS; DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; GENE ONTOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LICENCE; NOMENCLATURE; OPEN DATA REQUIRES OPEN ONTOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVIOUS VERSIONS SHOULD BE AVAILABLE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMANTICS; SOMETIMES AN ONTOLOGY IS NOT NEEDED AT ALL; TEXTUAL DEFINITIONS SHOULD BE WRITTEN FOR DOMAIN EXPERT; THE ONTOLOGY CLASSES AND RELATIONSHIPS SHOULD PERSIST; THE ONTOLOGY SHOULD BE ABOUT A SPECIFIC DOMAIN OF KNOWLEDGE; THE ONTOLOGY SHOULD BE DEVELOPED BY THE COMMUNITY BUT NOT INCAPACITATED BY IT; THE ONTOLOGY SHOULD BE UNDER ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT; THE ONTOLOGY SHOULD REFLECT CURRENT UNDERSTANDING OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; BIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN;

BIOLOGICAL ONTOLOGIES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS;

EID: 84959489622     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004743     Document Type: Editorial

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